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Impulse buy, not used ?
Have you ever been shoping, bought something on impulse and NEVER used it ?
I bought a tub of Palm Sugar, and I've just looked at the sell by date - May 2010 !
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There's a couple of jars in the cupboard that haven't been opened
Tamarind paste and lemongrass. I'll get around to using them. Infact I might do tonight as I was going to make a pork coconut curry. The problem then is using them up. |
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I have a tin of baked beans in the cupboard I have no idea where they came from as I hate baked beans.
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Tinned mushrooms (I really cannot remember why I bought them. I don't know why they even exist as a product) Tinned rhubarb (same as above!) Loads of bits for making sushi - I will get round to using them eventually ![]() Edit: Reggae Reggae sauce too! |
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Tamarind paste and lemongrass.
I use a lot of stuff at least every month or too, but those i've not used since the first recipe. I only do lazy thai curry with paste. |
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A bottle of Rice wine from Wing Yips circa 1992.
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I suppose a food cupboard, shelf or fridge is not quite right unless it has a tin of something you really don't intend or particularly want to eat, ever, or have turned against since you bought it because it now looks horrible.
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I have semolina and pudding rice that are unopened. I don't like rice pudding and my partner isn't too keen on semolina so I haven't got round to making any yet.
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There's a couple of jars in the cupboard that haven't been opened
Tamarind paste and lemongrass. I'll get around to using them. Infact I might do tonight as I was going to make a pork coconut curry. The problem then is using them up. Lemongrass there are only 2 recipes I know that ask for it both coconut based so I also tend to eat one and then have one just sitting around for weeks. We have a jar of tapenade. Yuk is all I can say. avoid |
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Loads of bits for making sushi - I will get round to using them eventually
![]() ![]() Also: Allspice powder Demerara sugar An oriental oyster sauce Sumac powder |
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My mother has a special part of her pantry set aside just for these items. She usually gets them given to her by her mother. But then I cheerfully take the tins of creamed corn (nobody else I know likes this stuff, can't figure why really), stewed steak, corn relish (there's a corn theme seemingly) and tins of corned beef hash.
My own collection has recently been added to, which is a little early to decide whether you'll never use it or not I agree, but then I didn't really know what I was going to do with it when I bought it. Palm hearts. Someone on here mentioned them last year sometime and I was intrigued. I saw them in the shit-bins at Tesco for 11p so I bought not one, but two tins of them. Now they sit, waiting to be called to action. I haven't told them this, but it might be quite a while. I notice someone else have some Reggae Reggae sauce lurking at the back of their cupboard. The thing is, not happy being very under-whelmed by his normal dipping sauce - I then went out and bought his cooking Reggae Reggae sauce too. This is keeping the Palm hearts company. I'm a bit hooked on condiments so I have a lot and in defence they do tend to all get used. Apart from, that is, the really bad ones from the Chinese supermarket. The satay sauce dip I bought, is just oily, fishy, salty peanut butter. Shudder. That doesn't get used. Nor does it get thrown away. I have Thai Green curry paste, a jar of minced ginger and TWO bottles of fish sauce. A friend came round and cooked me a curry. Left the ingredients and here they still remain after over a year. |
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Huge tin of mushrooms - catering size. Don't like tinned mushrooms it was left over from a fund raiser a couple of years ago. May have to have a another fund raiser to use it up.
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yeah, i have those too.
I use a lot of stuff at least every month or too, but those i've not used since the first recipe. I only do lazy thai curry with paste. Quote:
tamarind paste is easy to use up if you eat Indian curry. There aer a few recipes that ask for it.
Lemongrass there are only 2 recipes I know that ask for it both coconut based so I also tend to eat one and then have one just sitting around for weeks. We have a jar of tapenade. Yuk is all I can say. avoid
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I have semolina and pudding rice that are unopened. I don't like rice pudding and my partner isn't too keen on semolina so I haven't got round to making any yet.
It's still there and I don't really like it so don't know when it will ever be used |
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Tahini. Haven't got around to making homemade hummus yet and not sure what else to do with it.
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Still got a jar of Saffron that I bought in Spain years ago. Never going to use it.
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